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[ChickenGrass]

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Here's a young climbing rose I have,
I'm not sure of the variety but it has a wonderful scent!
I also have another one like this but it's called leaping salmon.

An old climbing rose.
It was planted on my farm before I bought it.
The bush is about 20 years old and has a wonderful scent.
It has about 16 stems climbing up a rhododendron bush.
I hope to take some cuttings from it in October.

A white Cala lily.
I realy like the way the sun is hitting its flowers.
It looks like a light is in the flower.

A broken shed on my farm.
Behind it is a field and then the forest.

 

[Carol Dee]

@ChickenGrass Beautiful flowers and the view from you place is heavenly. I see you are from Ireland. Nice to have you here at TEG. Welcome from Iowa, Right smack dab in the middle of America.

 

[Beekissed]

LOVE that first rose....what a perfect blossom and delightful color!

 

[digitS']

I was recently looking at a Pinterest page by someone who has a love for stone structures. What attracted me to it was a very high stone wall, it was straight up, without a wide base. It had been put together in a wood form and I was wondering how stable something like that was. It didn't look very stable after I could see an up-close picture of it.

We have lots of rocks around here, @ChickenGrass .

I have a shed-attached hoop-house and was actually thinking of building the shed out of stone. The neighbor graciously allowed me to set it up in his yard and I decided that it wouldn't be very neighborly to build it with something that couldn't be taken down easily .

Steve

 

[ChickenGrass]

@ChickenGrass Beautiful flowers and the view from you place is heavenly. I see you are from Ireland. Nice to have you here at TEG. Welcome from Iowa, Right smack dab in the middle of America.

Thank you for the welcome
And thank you for the comments on the pictures.
I will keep you updated on my garden throughout the year.
Here's a picture from my house and one from the polytunnel.

This last photo was taken on a rainy day so I will try get one when its brighter.

LOVE that first
rose....what a perfect blossom and delightful color!

Thank you very much.
I agree I absolutely love it too.
I hope to buy some more roses from the same place.
It cost me about €25 or around $23
And to make it better both roses are beginning to bud up and it's only February.
Also this winter my old rose (the one with white flowers) flowered in the winter!
Our winters arnt realy cold though.
Coldest this winter was about -5 and we had no snow.
If we do get snow though it's not much.
Fionn.

 

[ChickenGrass]

I was recently looking at a Pinterest page by someone who has a love for stone structures. What attracted me to it was a very high stone wall, it was straight up, without a wide base. It had been put together in a wood form and I was wondering how stable something like that was. It didn't look very stable after I could see an up-close picture of it.

We have lots of rocks around here, @ChickenGrass .

I have a shed-attached hoop-house and was actually thinking of building the shed out of stone. The neighbor graciously allowed me to set it up in his yard and I decided that it wouldn't be very neighborly to build it with something that couldn't be taken down easily .

Steve

That was nice of your neighbour to let you set it up in his yard.
Did you have to take it down again when you wanted to take it,
Back to your place?

 

[digitS']

It is nice of him, Fionn!

Here is a thread from 4 years ago when I had just emptied it. The plastic film comes down. It takes up about a third of his little garden and the neighbor always has hopes of using all the ground for a garden through the summer. It hasn't happened yet!

As of today

From my side, it just looks like a fence with a door in it. Open the door and I am in the shed. It has double doors in the front through the winter and so it is enclosed space. He sometimes puts a few things in it.

The film and plastic hoops are stored in the crawl space under one room of my house. It takes most of a day to set it up and about 2 hours to take it down. The shed is made of old fence boards. Using stone would be quite a step up.

Steve

 

[ChickenGrass]

Just to let you all know,
This is who I bought the roses from http://www.justroseskilfinane.com/index.html
I bought my roses from them at an agricultural show,
But now I'm thinking of buying some more roses from their website!

 

[thistlebloom]

You live in a beautiful place Fionn.

I noticed your avatar looks like the same rose as the first pic, yes?
It glows! I think the best roses are the ones with fragrance.

 

[ChickenGrass]

Thank you Thistlebloom,
If you see the first picture in the second set,
Just below the bottom of the field there is a pathway leading down,
To a river.
There is also another field down there too.
I will get some pictures of it.
Yes the my avatar is the same as the first picture.
I realy like that rose bush.
I like the contrast of yellow and then a pinky/red.

Also do you have any tips on pruning them?
I have never pruned a rose (I know I should but I'm scared incase I do it wrong)
When should I prune and how would I do it with a climbing rose.
Thank you very much,
Fionn.